Billionaire Russian investor Vladimir Potanin announced a US$5 million gift Thursday to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to mark its 40th anniversary and support its programs.

Italian maestro Riccardo Muti opened the Rome Opera season on Sunday with Giuseppe Verdi's “Macbeth” as an opera house little known on the international music circuit makes an ambitious bid for prestige.

A new play in Romania, based on transcripts of interrogations conducted by the Communist-era secret police, is focusing attention on the still sensitive issues of solidarity and betrayal.

The Salzburg Festival has commissioned new operas from composers Gyorgy Kurtag, Marc-Andre Dalbavie, Thomas Ades and Jorg Widmann that will premiere one per summer from 2013-16.

Start spreading the news: The musical based on the film “Newsies” is striking a path to Broadway.

One was waiting tables at a Times Square seafood restaurant. Another was in Disney films and on tour with the Jonas Brothers. A third had performed at Carnegie Hall, but wondered when she'd land theater's biggest prize.

Most plays strive for clarity. David Henry Hwang's latest, “Chinglish,” does the opposite.

Broadway's Spider-Man musical is about to lose two of its original cast members.

She's but a throwaway mention in Shakespeare's “Othello,” a one-line reference buried in Act IV of the dense and dark tale of passion and betrayal.

A small experimental theater in London has beaten Hollywood to produce the first artistic interpretation of the explosive News of the World hacking scandal using the hacked voicemails of volunteers.